The midair collision happened about five miles south of the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport around 4 p.m.

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The other pilot was killed--not by the midair collision but by spiraling into the ground after losing his wing.

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Following April's midair collision of a Navy EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet, the outlook had been gray.

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One of the WASPs was Scarsdale native Alice Lovejoy, who was killed on Sept. 13, 1944, in a midair collision over Texas.

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On February 22, another seven Marines were killed in a midair collision of two military helicopters along the Arizona-California border, officials said.

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Another great pilot fear is a midair collision, such as the one Cirrus cofounder Alan Klapmeier experienced while a student pilot in 1985.

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Six British crew members and one American were killed Saturday in a midair collision between two British Navy Sea King helicopters over the Persian Gulf, according to the UK Central Command in Qatar and the Pentagon.

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